Care Plan Update Management via Temporal Revision Policies
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing personalized interactive care management systems for chronic illnesses face challenges in maintaining timely and relevant content updates while providing personalized assistance to large numbers of patients, and medical professionals have differing opinions on the advisability of new medical procedures, making it difficult to deliver updated content appropriately.
Innovation Solution
A server-based care management system with a content database that stores multiple revisions of care management-related content, each tagged with temporal revision information, and patient care plans that specify which revisions to present, allowing for personalized and flexible content delivery based on patient needs and medical professional preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the system delivers updated content to all patients, then the currency of medical information is improved, but the flexibility to accommodate individual patient needs and physician preferences deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different content revision policies to different patients based on their individual care plans. Each patient can have customized policy settings (e.g., latest revision, specific version, or no updates) allowing the system to balance information currency with individualized adaptability for each user.
2Reliability
If the system provides intensive one-on-one interaction, then patient compliance is improved, but the cost and availability of medical personnel deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables patients to access and review updated care plan content independently through the interface, without requiring medical personnel intervention. Patients can self-educate using the updated materials and provide feedback through surveys, reducing the need for intensive professional interaction while maintaining compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where patients respond to surveys about the content delivery, allowing the system to adjust and personalize content delivery automatically based on patient responses, thereby maintaining effectiveness without proportionally increasing personnel requirements.
3Loss of information
If the system updates content frequently, then the relevance of medical information is improved, but the complexity of managing multiple content revisions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content into discrete, versioned modules with temporal revision information. Each content piece is treated as an independent unit that can be updated separately, allowing frequent updates without overwhelming complexity. The segmentation enables systematic management of multiple revisions through structured metadata.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-tags content with temporal revision information and establishes revision policies in advance before content delivery. This preliminary organization of revision data allows the system to automatically manage and deliver appropriate versions without real-time complexity during content selection and delivery.
Data Source
AI summary
A care plan management system (10) includes a server (12) including a content database (14) containing care management-related content including multiple revisions of at least some said content. Each content revision is tagged with temporal content revision information. A care plans storage (18) stores a plurality of patient care plans (21, 22, 23) associated with corresponding patients. Each patient care plan includes a selection of care management-related content to be presented to the patient, and a revision policy indicating which temporal revision of said content should be presented. User interfaces (31, 32, 33) are operatively connected with a communication interface (28) of the server (12) to receive and present the selected care management-related content.